1854-O $3 AU58 PCGS. Variety 2. The more common, lapped
reverse die state of Variety One. The Southern branch mints had
little enough of their own gold coinage to do by 1854, and when it
was plain from the Dahlonega and New Orleans experiments that
demand for three dollar gold coins was next-to-nil, those branch
facilities did not continue the experiment. This is a pale and
radiant near-Mint representative of the only New Orleans three
dollar gold issue, rubbed to color-change at a spot on the hair
below the headdress but attractive nonetheless. Occasional glimpses
of reflectivity persist in the fields. Population: 20 in 58, 2
finer (3/13).(Registry
values: N2998) (NGC ID# 25M5, PCGS# 7971)